Denial of Service Affecting node-fetch package, versions <2.6.1 >=3.0.0-beta.1 <3.0.0-beta.9
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.1% (44th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-JS-NODEFETCH-674311
- published 11 Sep 2020
- disclosed 10 Sep 2020
- credit Unknown
Introduced: 10 Sep 2020
CVE-2020-15168 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade node-fetch to version 2.6.1, 3.0.0-beta.9 or higher.
Overview
node-fetch is a light-weight module that brings window.fetch to node.js
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service. Node Fetch did not honor the size option after following a redirect, which means that when a content size was over the limit, a FetchError would never get thrown and the process would end without failure.
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